Punxsutawney Phil must have seen his shadow last year at the Oscars and decided institutional racism was going to be around for another year. For the second year in a row no people of color were nominated for the top honors in America’s entertainment industry. In a country that is 37 percent people of color,
hen Mi Gente, a group that represents Latino students at Duke University, announced that it would boycott a spring recruiting weekend for Latinos because its members were tired of simply being “poster children for brochures,” black and Asian-American student groups took to social media to pledge their support.
Meanwhile, they were busy with their own demands.
(San Francisco, CA, Jan. 25, 2016) – The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is offering its heart-felt condolences to the family, friends, and all who knew her, on the passing of Dr. Espanola Jackson. Known as “Mother Jackson” for decades, Dr. Jackson championed the cause for human and civil rights for her beloved Bayview Hunters Point
CANTON, Ohio — Leonard Campanello, the police chief of Gloucester, Mass., took the microphone here in mid-December and opened with his usual warm-up line: I’m from Gloucester, he said in his heavy Boston accent. “That’s spelled ‘G-l-o-s-t-a-h.’”
A casually profane man with a philosophical bent, Chief
High-achieving, Black, elementary school students are much less likely than their White peers to receive assignments to gifted and talented programs in math and reading, according to a new study.
However, the disparities in rates of placement essentially disappear among Black students who have Black teachers.
These are among the findings published last week in AERA Open, a
The Latino electorate is bigger and better educated than ever before, according to a new report by Pew Research Center.
It’s also young. Adults age 18-35 make up nearly half of the record 27.3 million Latinos eligible to vote in this year’s presidential election, the report found.
But although the number of Latinos eligible to vote is surging — 40% higher
Naomi Zack is one of just six people scheduled to receive a University of Oregon award on Wednesday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
But the philosophy professor expressed mixed feelings about what the award means at a university where so few of her colleagues are minorities.
Ms. Zack, who describes herself as multiracial, said there
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it would consider a legal challenge to President Obama’s overhaul of the nation’s immigration rules. The court, which has twice rejected challenges to Mr. Obama’s health care
The winner of the 2016 Oscar in practically every category is … white men facing adversity.
Just two years after the much-touted breakthrough of “12 Years a Slave,” the best picture nominees announced Thursday, with a few notable exceptions, follow a dishearteningly repetitive story line of white men triumphing over enormous odds: The Hollywood blacklist (“Trumbo”),
Yeni Mora floated in from the kitchen with a smile and set two carafes of freshly brewed coffee on a table seating 20 of her most devoted patrons.
Her Mexican restaurant in this town of 4,000 is a place where locals like to say they compete to “try to tell the biggest lie,” and where what